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Trump can dish it, but he can’t take it 🙄
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Good Morning, World.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#jiang yanli#jiang cheng#'Good Morning World' because to wwx the jiang household is what grounds him. It is his burrow and blanket.#The familiar soup and banter is his home. The familiar arguments and tension are also his home.#Notice how quickly he throws LWJ to the side once he has JC back in reach! 'He was so boring; I wish *you* were there!'#WWX is very quick to constantly remind himself that he fits within a very specific power structure and role.#He pushes boundaries but almost always only the boundaries that he knows he can push against.#Sitting here now and realizing that if WWX did take life more seriously and act more diligent he would totally usurp JC.#Because the contrast with Them (tm) is wwx is the one that gets in trouble and JC is the one that sticks to the rules.#That responsible appearance especially in contrast is the thin line that holds JC's self-esteem together.#And lets be fully honest. From JC's perspective the last week was also extremely intense and stressful.#It truly was a feat to travel so far so fast despite also being exhausted. Never knowing if it is all in vain.#JC said with his actions 'I would move mountains for you and dig through stone with my bare hands if it meant reaching you.'#and WWX said '[read]'#It's about wwx chronically asking 'why would someone care for me? I'm always tool to be used' than accepting that people love him.
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The Three Subcon Bosses [My fanon version lol]
The trickster shadow, the wrathful queen, and the disappearing moon
Lore Below <3
Snatcher: Once was a kind lonely prince whose only talent was painting, often overlooked and ignored due to this. He fell in love with Vanessa quickly as she was the only one who understood the loneliness of his paintings. The two married after a year of courtship, but the prince worked hard to learn to rule by her side, even going to law school. Unfortunately, he ignored the terrible treatment by his frantic wife for fear of true loneliness until it was too late...
Now the kind prince turned into a terrible and manipulative shadow, using robbed souls and his smarts to grow as powerful as he is, growing to be the sole ruler of the Subcon Forest. He prefers to be in control and over-possessive of everything he deems 'his', including the terrible wife who killed him painfully. He despises her but deep down knows she's the only person who will ever truly care for him even as a monster so she gets to stay as his pathetic little toy <3
However, he can't help but enjoy the very small snippets of moments between them that remind him of a better time when they were young and naive. He can't help but smile as the princess Vanessa was once shines through that red mass of anger, oh how he wishes to rip open the beast and find his princess within it, safe and innocent as she used to be
Vanessa: She was once a kind and sweet princess filled with so much loneliness especially since her father ran away. On a visit to a foreign kingdom, she was immersed in the large gallery of paintings depicting how she felt perfectly, lonely. She soon fell for the painter, a kind but mischievous prince who was just as lonely as she was. But her horrible mother was jealous of her daughter's happiness and poisoned her heart and mind with her evil words, reminding the princess of her father who ran away. The princess' desperate thoughts turned dark and possessive, wanting the prince all to herself, even getting rid of her mother who she thought wanted her prince. The now Queen was more desperate, her heart and mind growing darker and bitter with each day that passed without her beloved... Soon it would all explode, taking every soul within Subcon with her.
After a few years of mindless wrath and pain, she 'cooled down'. Finally gaining sense and guilt, but since no one wished to accept her apologies, she learned not to care over such matters anymore. Her heart grew bitter, cold, and uncaring of much but the evil monster her beloved became. His very existence enrages her, reminding her that her kind sweet prince is gone and all she has is this thing, this terrible and evil shadow who took everything from her. But even so, she can never get rid of him, for he is the only one who will 'care' for her, who could relieve her of her loneliness even if his actions are cruel and taunting. She doesn't want to be truly alone, but he is the only one she can truly trust, so he is the only intruder who will remain safe from her terrible wrath even if she hates him so. Though she knows her prince is gone, she relishes the small brief moments she could see a flicker of him through the monster's wicked being. Oh, how she wishes she could grab her prince in that brief second and never let him go.
Moonjumper: He was once a naive but adventurous lad, a time traveler who shone bright with the moon. Crashing into the strange planet, he met a cold princess whose heart was as cold as ice. He felt understood as he didn't understand what love was either, so he decided to stay with the princess and become her king to find out what love was. They soon had a princess who they named Vanessa. The king loved his daughter very much but didn't love his title or his wife, for he was a being of freedom. Without confronting his wife, he planned to take Vanessa and escape, but he left her behind once his wife figured out his plot. His wife, who grew to love him, was heartbroken and distraught over his betrayal, and so she cursed him with her magic to death, over and over again.
The man became a distorted time rift, cold and alone, wanting nothing more than to find someone to stay with him in his lonely horizon, especially his little princess.
Hundreds of years have passed, and he watches on with great pain as the sweet girl his daughter was once turned into a monster. All thanks to the monster who took over Subcon with that disgusting smirk, he made his daughter the monster she is! And she was no better! Being easily influenced by that monster and turning into a monster herself, they were both horrible beasts! Both were responsible for taking away his little princess! Once he has the chance, he'll get rid of them both! But since he is much weaker and scared of them, he'll abide his time until he can finally avenge his sweet daughter. For now, he searches for someone he could keep in his lonely prison, someone who he can raise to be just as perfect as his little princess...
#a hat in time#ahit#ahit fanon#The Snatcher#Queen Vanessa#Moonjumper#ahit snatcher#ahit vanessa#ahit moonjumper#Subcon Bosses#So yeah thank u for reading this whole mess lol#it's not really an au but rather my fanon verison of things lol#It's a nice mix of HCs/Canon/Shane Frost's interpretation#They all horrible and need therapy but yaknow would rather die again than admit it lol#Anyways TLDR#Vanessa and Snatcher are in a very normal and extremely toxic situationship#They can't stand each other for much but they cannot exist without the other#because they are extremely lonely and know that the only person that truly understand them is each other#Moonjumper hates them both for different reasons but won't admit his part in everything#They all rule their own part of Subcon but Snatcher has more control of the general area + Van's territory#This also applies to his toxic situationship with Van. He wouldn't entertain this otherwise if he wasn't the one in control#Overall a toxic soap opera <3#Heights: Snatcher: 8'9/Vanessa: 6'0/Moonjumper:5'8#My Art#Demondoodles
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pushing daisies kaishin au #2
pushing daisies au where shinichi has been able to revive dead animals, plants, even people since he was a child.
kudou "i can literally talk to the dead" shinichi
shinichi's parents didn’t exactly encouraged him to use this power. especially not in public. they’ve seen him revive and re-kill dead plants and animals in the same breath, it doesn’t take a detective to figure out what could happen near a human corpse.
but a young shinichi is curious, a young shinichi admired his father, and a young shinichi wanted to prove himself a detective. but most of all, a young shinichi wanted to help.
so when he saw his father struggle in solving a particular case, a young shinichi figured that maybe asking straight from the source would help give them a hint.
the complete horror in yusaku's eyes shinichi saw that day made him promise himself to never do it again.
shinichi realizes later on that reviving someone just for a clue on the whos, hows, and whys of their death only to touch them again, to basically kill them again, is sick and twisted and the realization leaves him feeling raw and dirty.
he then decides that if he’s gonna find out the truth, if he’s gonna bring justice, it’s not by making the victims suffer a second death. he will unravel the mystery not by magic but by logic.
the curious case of kuroba kaito
hakuba immediately contacts shinichi.
“he was...a friend. if i have to gather all the best detectives to catch his murderer then so be it.”
hakuba goes on to explain.
it was a kid heist. shots were fired. snipers. kaitou kid was caught on camera falling, as if he’d been shot, but he appears a minute later flying away on his glider with not a speck of blood on his suit. all should be well however, a few buildings away in an alleyway, the body of kuroba kaito is found dead. gunshots through the heart and chest.
a simple explanation would’ve been that the glider was a fake activated by kid’s assistant as a last ditch effort to save his legacy and this kuroba kaito was kaitou kid himself. he would’ve said it out loud but by the look on hakuba’s face, he can tell that he already connected those dots long before shinichi even stepped foot in the morgue. that wasn’t what hakuba called him for.
“can i...take a look at the body alone?”
hakuba raises an eye at him but moves to leave without questioning. "alright then. i have to check on another friend anyway. she's been...distraught ever since she heard the news and..." hakuba's words trail away as his eyes unconsciously drifted towards kuroba kaito's covered body. shinichi patiently waits through the quiet pain that he sees on hakuba. the pinch in his brows, the tenseness of his body. he must've been a really good friend.
hakuba shakes his head and turns his attention back to shinichi. "sorry, i...its been a long day. i'll leave you here then. call me if you find anything."
left alone, shinichi carefully zips open the body bag covering kaitou kid's upper body. he looked eerily similar to himself and imagining his own body cold and dead in the morgue sent a shiver down his spine. shaking his head, he pulls a chair close and reads through the file hakuba brought him.
"no witnesses. no camera. not a trace nor lead to anything. just some reports on mysterious gunshots in previous heists that lead to nowhere." they were professionals, whoever did this, shinichi thought. it was not going to be an easy case.
he takes another peek at the body. so this was kaitou kid, huh. too young to be the same as the one before his hiatus. perhaps a successor? motive could be related to his predecessor. his mother hasn't said anything of interest. does she really not know or is she protecting him? he runs his hand through his hair. there's too little information to go on...unless...
temptation rears its head. the source of information is right there in front of him. one touch and it could open up new leads to the case. an immediate disgust twists deep into his gut. he promised himself to never use it on people. to never kill. his father's haunted eyes embedded in his mind. he shouldn't. he really shouldn't. but he remembers the anguished look on hakuba's face. if he was going to do it, this might be the only good time. any longer and his touch would not revive kid. and gone along with him would be vital information to catch his murderer.
shinichi heaves a deep sigh. he has never used his abilities on dead people since that one incident as a child but he couldn't shake off the look on hakuba's face. it was now or never. shinichi reaches for kid's hand.
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pushing daisies au #1
#kaishin#detective conan#dcmk#dc prattles#shinichi: don't panic#kaito: *remembers what happened* WHAT THE FUCK#lol#also in this au the someone dies after a minute if he doesn't touch the dead person a second time again rule applies#shinichi has never discovered this fact growing up because he never really truly tried to explore this ability#perhaps he himself is freaked out by it and ever since the day he saw fear and the haunted look in yusaku's eyes#he never wanted to revisit it ever again#shinichi would probably connect the dots a little later but#the commotion of someone just dropping dead out of nowhere outside the morgue would be what he & kaito would use as a distraction to escape#shinichi was supposedly only going to ask a few questions and touch kaito again but ofc kaito would attempt to escape immediately#anyway something something pandora revives kaito back permanently so he and shinichi can kiss and make out the end#LMAOOOOO#thank you pandora for being a convenient deus ex machina mwah now kaishin can have plenty a sexy times :>#if you saw me accidentally posting this earlier no you didnt#also i never intended for this to be long or written like this#it was supposed to be a bulletpoint list of hcs but it got out of hand unfortunately LOL#finally out of the drafts after almost 2 years im so sorry this au lmao#there's one last pushing daisies kaishin au in the drafts yippee :D
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julie e os fantasmas (original julie and the phantoms) was so wild. like, what do you mean the boys were crushed to death by a truck? what do you mean julie has committed more than one crime? what do you mean the main triangle consists of a rockstar with a closet dnd player vs a my chemical romance revenge era rejected song? what do you mean the ghost love interest was a menace to society in life and public enemy number 1 in death? what do you mean he was tortured more than once? what do you mean there was a dude trying to enslave ghosts and this plotline only lasted two episodes????
#julie e os fantasmas#julie and the phantoms#julie and the phantoms og#this show shaped my entire personality#it was my childhood#i didn't realize how wild it was until i watched it as an adult#the one with the creepy teacher is particularly crazy#he actually breaks into julie's house and finds a way to physically torture GHOSTS#i love the remake but the original shaped me y'all don't understand#and i love luke but daniel is just so iconic#i wasn't lying about him being a menace#the dude broke into a hotel (by pushing the lobby guy and running) and caused chaos just to get his idol to listen to his band's music#and somehow got a hamburger out of it#and not only is he (all three of them are#but demetrius targets daniel specifically) being chased by the chief of the ghost police#he also completely throws 500 years of ghost laws out the window by causing a rebellion with just one story#“i never followed the rules when i was alive i'm not gonna follow them now that i'm dead” he took that seriously#also julie thinks cheating at school is wrong but she has no problem with breaking into places or potentially injuring thalita#her pettiness knows no boundaries lmfao#they truly are meant for each other 🤩#too bad he's dead#daniel every two episodes: i could make her worse#while he doesn't know that most of the crimes julie commits are of her own volition#i love my angsty little criminals#juliel#julie x daniel
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can ppl in this fandom like... stop... implying that transmasculinity in hcs or (especially) canon is shallow or misogynistic or even transmisogynistic on princible, like literally just by being prescent in someones mind or in the text. like that doesnt fuckin feel good. thats kind of really nasty to imply. if its not okay to say about other trans experiences, maybe dont say it about this one either. why is there a weird little exception here. yall KNOW how much that sucks to hear all day every day. what the fuck
#my t#idk how to tell the hs fandom that every piece of trans coding in roxy in hs1 can be read as transmasc too. like transfem and transmasc#at the same time from the EXACT same reasons. its almost like we all share experiences just by way of being trans. weird i know#its almost like being trans rlly truly highlights what it is to be human and how we are all in fact at the end of the day human together#i just want everyone to stop trying to 'poke holes' in other fans trans hcs FULL STOP across the board no matter who they are#or what the hc is. its needlessly hurtful and more often than not trips into real peoples dysphoria which then#makes the target more likely to lash out. so the person poking them abt it can do a ''SEE? THEYRE ALL MEAN ONE OF THEM#WAS MEAN TO ME JUST NOW'' routine. its so obviously a 'im not touching u!!!' playground maneuver like holy fuck grow up#if you wanna fight for transfem/me folks right to just exist random fans personal headcanons is not the fuckin time or place#the XY in roxys name could be read as her having been DMAB or it could be hussie having a long running giggle about him preordering#his own transmasculinity. roxys colour being pink could be bc shes a girl or it could be compcis!!!#roxys desperation for a bf is from loneliness in canon but its often read as her feeling like she needs one to be a real girl#it can ALSO be read as another aspect of him struggling with compcis and comphet esp w/ his fantasies abt being 'a mother'#yknow what i never fuckin see that rlly highlights the fact that this is just a shitty 'girls rule boys drool' thing? theres like. no#discussions on the potential of roxy being any kinda intersex. absolutely none. he could be mtftm for all you fuckin know#but oh yknow being mtftm is A Shallow Read so we cant have that. hs is only for girls didnt you know we need to terf- i mean turf#out every single instance of queer mascness bc its Evil in the text didnt you know#god help the fandoms word of god token trans boy dirk strider for 'choosing' his eternal misery while everyone else is enlightened#by way of transforming into a girl. bc we must place girlhood on an inhuman pedistal of perfection and niceness and joy and rainbows#like what IS this mahou shojo brand gender essentialism???? im fuckin sick of it#can we remember that girlhood isnt & wasnt safe or joyful for everyone & that that can translate into how we curate our fandom experiences
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lust :(
#the tragedy of it all. if lust gets revamped or touched up i .would love more like..insight or little tidbits into the daily life#probably wont get it and ill just have to Fucking Starve. but i can dream#the curtains in the windows..the skeleton (how im seeing it) locked behind that door stuck Praying. Its probably the only thing they knew#how to do#Seeing these people in their final moments and seeing that they werent so unholy as heaven says.#Truly their only sin was loving one another#gooptalks#The idea of people being devoted to god but heavens overly strict rule damning otherwise 'holy' people is somethig i think of often#I probably sound crazy. I wish we had more lust and greed journals or something
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and I think child modelling should be illegal I'm not even joking
#I dodged it but like it truly felt like we were pigs raised to slaughter. slaughter being prostitution#every little detail I remember now as adult with basic child psychology education from my teacher background is just. how#I'm not brave enough to say 'jail to mother' (yet) but honestly...#what wrong could come from making a bunch of girls used to lying about their age ignoring being made uncomfortable and disrespected#especially by adults who can make all sorts of rules and claims on their bodies and schedules that are treated as secrets#I had the best experience possible and I am certain I did get pimps approaching me my mother and contractors#and even then I felt very weird that I was often sent to nightclubs that only allowed adults as clients but since I was there to get on#stage as work then I could get in and actually I got instructed to keep on 'vip areas' that typically had a lot more drugs circulating#the heels the clothing and makeup I got put on were also so wrong#I didn't hate it at the time some things made me uncomfortable but I liked dancing I liked fashion and I liked how the fact I was 'making#money' made me more respected in my house and I started getting more independence (that I probably shouldn't have been given either)#but ugh the existing photographs already make me want to throw up and I am glad there aren't photographs of the worse 'dance' jobs I did#very strange little universe#I also feel like I was the only girl that didn't have an eating disorder but mostly cuz I already had problems with alcohol that did the jo#but also I got in much older than the other girls and out pretty fast#crazy that 13 is old but like you genuinely hear of 6 year old who are responsible for a considerable portion of the household income#YIKES#the compliments I got on managing to look older and 'being so mature'. yikes#anything that allows a child to be the one making most of the family's income is a receipt for disaster#.txt
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Don't talk to me, I'm thinking about Clark Kent and the inherent tragedy of a weapon who only wants to heal
#an alien god whose greatest wish is to be human#is he over powered? yes. and yet he always falls short#he can only use so much of his powers to be able to heal#and to save#and not to truly harm those he fights#and those who watch#and yet#he believes his powers were created for good#were created to heal#to protect#don't you see how you crush the things you love? set fire to all that you see?#everyone else sees it#Bruce. Luthor. even Diana#''why are you superman?'' ''because no one else can be''#but that's not exactly true. is it?#because he's not superman#if superman is some ideal benevolent god who can solve the world's problems... than he is not superman no matter how hard he tries to be#if superman is some all powerful destructive ruling god... then he is not superman and does everything not to be#if superman is the latter then he could be super man#but he's not#so why is he superman?#because no one else has the ability to try. and no one else has the ability to refuse#okay up tearing up again I'm gonna go to slee#dc comics#superman#clark kent#my rambles
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yeah, no. knowing qcellbit, this is 100% without a doubt a desperate ploy to get insider information about the federation, and he's willing throw away his entire life to do it.
Ive seen a number of people particularly confused about why he might be trying to get full custody over richarlyson, and I thought I'd toss my hat into the ring here.
he's creating conflict. the worse it is, the more believable it is.
he needs everyone to hate him as time goes on. he needs to make himself entirely vulnerable and fully willing— he needs to strip himself of any and all potential attachment so that all he has is the federation to make this act as authentic as possible. I don't think he expects to win this trial. he's doing this to make the rest of the brazilians despise him down to his very core.
at the same time, he can't just fucking throw the trial, either, hence why he tells qroier he's doing this to try and get bobby back despite cucurucho telling him it's impossible. already, qroier is the person most likely to support him. he has to sweeten the deal in any way he possibly can.
he fucks with SOFIA and changes her password because she is a hazard and a risk. the federation does not tolerate any attempted escapes or rule breaking— he knows this, he's experienced it himself. with all the progress SOFIA has been making, her existence has grown increasingly dangerous, but she's still useful for future plans. he can't just shut her down. so he makes her useless to anyone but himself, and he makes sure he has a bargaining chip when it comes to qmax. he's another person to get on his side to make sure the trial is as believable as it can be.
qcellbit is one analytical son of a bitch. he's a resilient motherfucker, and he does not stray from trial and error. error after error, knowing the federation is always listening, this time he cannot tell a soul. he can only pray his friends know him well enough to understand the plan and let him get away with it. everything else, he must do alone.
the commercial was his tipping point. my assumption is that he's been waiting for an opportunity like this for a while— an excuse to start the operation, to finally make it seem like he's lost his mind enough to be a desirable asset for the federation— and this is it. this is his opening. he'll do everything the federation says and more, just to make them give him a single chance at making this shit work.
it is sickening, and there is no guarantee that this plan will succeed, but he's exhausted so many options already. hearing qquackity's idea— order against order, not chaos against order, since they already expect that— must've given him a few of his own. he needs information. this has to be the way.
#qsmp#qsmp cellbit#qsmp roier#qsmp richarlyson#qsmp cucurucho#qsmp SOFIA#qsmp bobby#qsmp maximus#qsmp forever#qsmp quackity#qsmp theory#cellbit isn't an idiot he's just desperate#he's running out of options and sees this as the only way out#he'll go along with everything the federation wants#ANYTHING the federation wants#he needs to make this act believable#and I think he might corrupt himself in the process#the only way to truly play a role is to become it#so he's reinforcing rules and creating ones of his own#he'll play their game#and he'll try his damnest to win#yes I'm a qcellbit defender you can't be serious saying he's genuinely going on a villain arc here#have you watched a single one of his qsmp streams#he HATES THESE FUCKERS#but he has no more options#he needs to play by their rules to get what he wants#his act is so believable that even the codes are trying to kill him so he stops siding with the federation
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delighted by the idea of vanessa rolling up to her incredibly boring normal job's work party with three of the most terrifying men anyone's ever seen like yes hello this is my boyfriend, my boyfriend's boyfriend, and my boyfriend's qpp
#liveblogging movies#truly delighted that the deadpool movies are just wade extending his polycule#LISTEN nessa is only dating wade but has fully acceptled that logan and nate would be copadenting any of their kids#and therefor she is also married to them she doesnt make the rules she just needs a +3 to this goddamn miserable party#she cant be the only one riding herd on wade please for the love of god#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool#wolverine#deadpool and cable
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really wish people would read blog rules more, it makes running blogs like this very low reward and you feel like a machine if people aren't commenting and aren't even abiding by one of the, honestly, very few and politely phrased rules i even have
#then i'm left trying not to respond like a bitch when the rules are there in the first place so i don't have to have negative interactions#with the people who come to this blog#like keeping it 100 you write for yourself but you write for ENGAGEMENT and COMMUNITY#and these days in fandom there really is no community#for any fandom across the board#people see something and move on#that's bad enough at killing fandoms#but the fact that a creator can have really only one super hard rule and it gets disregarded every day#day in and day out! and i really mean it this rule gets broken in my inbox DAILY man!#i write for a lot of small fandoms or smaller characters i love the characters i'm happy to do it#but i have an adult job. college. friends. family. my own original creative projects#and even if i don't respond to the asks where people are blatantly violating /again/#one of my FEW rules#it's exhausting to even see it !!!#it makes me not feel like a person#who cares what the girl behind the screen asked me not to do? right?? but i'm about done#i'm only at my breaking point because i've had this blog now for what three or four years??#and no matter how i phrase the rule people break it#no matter how many reminder posts#it's exhausting because it's an every day daily thing#idk maybe i'll feel better abt it in the morning but i'm getting exhausted tbh#exhausted as in this blog might be going BYE BYE i wont delete i think you'd have it up until tumblr goes away but i am getting pissed off#TRULY pissed off bc it's been years of me asking cmon now
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oh to have a patron god who unconditionally loves you to bits.....
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#s-class heroine spoilers#a transmigrator's privilege#the perks of being an s class heroine#voice that shapes the world#the one whr ailette says 'please protect me by my side' always makes me tear up a little ngl#its the part whr voice takes a while to respond. and the fact that they say theyll be overcompensate. it gets to meeee#i love voice theyre almost as cute as hestio to me. which is saying a lot#and the self-assured 'thats my god' arg 🥺#i wuv them....#ailette is voice's favouritest little blorbo#except theyre treating ailette soooo well#like honestly this story is full of soooo many deux ex machinas#esp no thanks to voice spending divinity to save ailette / just make her life easier#its truly the transmigrator's privilege except she kind of only has this much privilege bc shes so likeable#and so good at maintaining social relationships that ALL the gods like her and try to find ways to help her#and bend and break rules for her#which i think makes the story more enjoyable bc it feels like SHE did all that. no other protag in her place couldve done all that#bc they wouldnt have been able to form such friendly relations with the tm gods#so it doesnt feel like a power fantasy even though it very much is a power fantasy. do i make sense#bc the power ailette has to bend the plot to her will isnt inherent in her... its granted to her by the tm gods#who are written to feel like they have their limits and therefore when they do bend the rules it feels like a lot#rather than just any old deux ex machina or flimsy plot point#like. this story is sooo orv-esque in that deux ex machinas keep happening but it doesnt rly bring you out of the story#bc the story requires those plot points to happen. bc the general narrative has so much more gg on in the background#and not simply just boss fights#do i make sense....
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#TAGS TLDR YOU CAN NEVER TRULY GO HOME BUT DO YOU WANT TO?#writing a little for d&d and having feelings about this#it was really interesting jasper and i were working on some game mechanics and we kept getting stuck at weird parts and it developed into#this conversation where we realized we experience the world#in such fundamentally different ways. like specifically talking about how paranoia#manifests and stuff but even later in a broader sense like our experiences of time and everything is so different#and they'd be like 'well what if this is something that happened to lock' and id be like 'how could that be something that anyone would#experience' and they were like 'oh because i do'#(example here was my character not realizing he had been magically transported and filling in the blank with vague memories of travel but i#was like. are you not acutely aware of every single moment you are awake and in motion even if it is excruciatingly boring. and jasper#was like. 'oh...no. i could be transported from one place to another and if time passed i wouldnt even think about having traveled or not'#which was WILD to me but then we were like 'okay i guess this cannot be something that happened to lock' because i couldnt even fathom that#but like anyway idk we got weirdly deep dive-y about d&d stuff and personal lives and i had big feelings on it bc genuinely i feel like#there are facets and caverns in myself i have only ever touched in storytelling but particularly in this campaign#and i've joked a lot about Lock and other chars in this game being self inserts#but i mean it in a good way#like the ways we tell stories or experience a world we created together is going to be through an extension of ourselves etc#but it's interesting to me to consider the limitations that brings yknow? we all live by such vastly different sets of rules and#understandings#and im writing out some stuff now and im like. yknow.#lock can never truly go home. i can never truly go home. none of us can ever truly go home#home as shifting impermanence home as transience etc#2017 levi is back apparently but hes always been right
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I presume that if you follow me you probably like D&D-esque storytelling, amoral mages, and also treason, and if so you are in luck!
I wrote probably the most on brand piece for a very cool publication called Ballads of the Distant Reaches, in which all of the stories take place in (and build the lore of) the same fantasy world. Mine is the story of a former magical arms dealer turned priest of chaos on trial for treason following a siege of the capital by his former collaborator. (Like I said, very on brand.) I got to write some absolute bastards in some absolute shit situations, and also a very fun description of a realm of chaos. Check it out!
#I do in fact only know how to self-promote in [tacky middle school PSA voice] I'm so sorry#this is the last one for the time being lol. reminders for myself that I need to like. submit things again. and also WRITE#I do not in fact know ever when things are getting published. what is time.#genuinely loved pitching and writing this. @ the universe pls let me write more things on pitch.#truly this pitch got picked and I was like 'literally all of my favorite fucking things. god bless.'#advice for pitching stuff: only send pitches that you actually want to write. that seems obvious but like.#it's real easy to go 'what does this publication want' and that should ALSO be a consideration but#three rules of pitches: what does the publication want? what are you excited to write? what gaps can you identify that you can fill?#anyway as always I will stop chatting in the tags about business things again#i can't help it i'm a capricorn 😔
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I think any modern au meng yao would really benefit from being a dungeon master. Elaborate plans and setups for encounters to pour over to give his high-speed brain something fun to do for once, he can use his acting skills on truly immaculate roleplay, and as a bonus he gets to kill everyone in his social circle except he doesn't actually do anything wrong and they can't get mad at him for it. It's not his fault you didn't roll better, da-ge.
For all that he speaks very well Jin guangyao is never a monologuing/grand speech villain. He is just so dependent on everyone else's opinion of him he never truly gets to let go, but I think he deserves to monologue over a dead body, actually. And ttrpgs are the perfect place to do it with zero consequences.
#mdzs#meng yao#i'm thinking of those dimension 20 clips of brennan picking up a truly ridiculous amount of dice one by one as the table slowly goes mad#why yes i have been watching way too much d20 why do you ask#anyway that's dm a-yao. He also does random rolls in the middle of a roleplay scene and doesn't tell anyone what it was for#phsychological warfare on your players is always morally justified#i think he has like a full trilogy of books worth of lore for every world he makes and yet he barely ever has to look at his notes#because his memory is that perfect#wannabe rules lawyer tries to say some shit and he just smiles with one dimple and fucking eviscerates them#meng yao is absolutely not a rules lawyer if only because he lets huaisang get away with literally everything
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